„… as their stories unfold, one starts to see the parallels between the uncommon, common experience of these four men. Each character embarks on a journey for valid reasons, only to find himself so deeply embedded in the cause that he becomes the opposite of what he had intended. He is blind to this fact, though, until the forces of fate and character boil and distill to a single moment of dark epiphany. In telling this echoing story, the film asks: what is the path to extremism? In responding to the turmoil of life, where does one draw the line between the reasonable and the unreasonable? And how does one recover from the delusion of certainty?“ (Jessica Wu)

“ Paradoxically proving through innovation that there’s nothing new under the sun, director Jessica Yu (In the Realms of the Unreal) craftily co-opts and builds upon the intertwining, disparate talking-head structure of Errol Morris’s Fast, Cheap & Out of Control to illustrate how a modern life can follow the same trajectory as a classic hero’s journey. Inspired by an absurdly challenging request to make a doc about the Greek tragedian Euripides, Yu’s alternative approach was to deconstruct the playwright’s ideas through an articulate, motley quartet of extremist personalities… Yu’s rousing, difficult-to-classify exercise in parallel storytelling is surprisingly accessible, and all the more insightful for it. (Aaron Hillis, Village Voice)